Hi, On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 10:47:51PM +0100, malcolm wrote: > both the DVD and hard disk light come on and stay on forever ( well until > you reboot :-) and thats it ( xine and ogle work OK ) Definitly a hardware or kernel bug. A normal userspace program may never be able to cause this. Greetings, Reimar Doeffinger